Mario Vandenbogaerde

Mario Vandenbogaerde
Mario Vandenbogaerde
Personal information
Nickname	"Super Mario"
Born	1 June 1973 (age 48); Ypres, Belgium
Home town	Ypres, Belgium
Darts information
Playing darts since	1993
Darts	23 Gram One80
Laterality	Right-handed
Walk-on music	"He Kom Aan" by Het Feestteam
Organisation (see split in darts)
BDO	2003–2006, 2018–2020
PDC	2021 Q School
WDF	2018–
Current world ranking	(WDF) 93 35 (23 September 2021)
BDO majors – best performances
World Ch'ship	Semi Final: 2020
World Masters	Semi Final: 2019
World Darts Trophy	Last 16: 2019
Other tournament wins
Belgium National Championships	2005
German Open	2019
Luxembourg Masters	2018

Mario Vandenbogaerde (born 1 June 1973)^[2] is a Belgian professional darts player who plays in World Darts Federation (WDF) events. He reached the semifinals of the 2020 BDO World Darts Championship.

Career[]

In 2005, Vandenbogaerde won the Belgium National Championships. In 2018, he won the Luxembourg Masters. In 2019, he won the German Open, before reaching the semi-finals of the World Masters.

In September 2019, he qualified for the 2020 BDO World Darts Championship, which turned out to be the event's last edition, as the 11th seed, and got to the semi-finals on debut. He was first Belgian man to reach the semi-finals of a World Championship and the only to do so at the BDO World Championship.^[3]